Disability royal commission to hear ‘confronting stories’ from carers and Indigenous people living with disability

The chair of the disability royal commission has warned Australia needs to be careful not to repeat “errors of the past” when it comes to First Nations children with disability being removed from their families.

Commissioner Ronald Sackville said this week’s public hearing, centred on Indigenous people living with disability and postponed from earlier in the year due to the pandemic, would hear some confronting stories that needed to be addressed.

“The multiple forms of disadvantage can be traced to many factors. They include racism, they include poverty, they include barriers to health services, particularly for First Nations people in rural and remote areas,” Mr Sackville said.

The inquiry heard the number of Indigenous…